Gender Identity In Rereading America

Gender identity is learned from about the ages of eighteen months to two years old, which usually by age two children have an understanding that they are part of a certain gender group and they can accurately identify other individuals of their group. When children become the ages of five to seven, they are convinced that they are permanently members of their gender also kids will recognize their gender as well as other, but they will often make assumptions on the way a person looks. They go by the way a person dresses for example, children will assume the person is a female if they are walking around wearing a dress with heels and make up on or is wearing pants with a shirt that’s fitted but revealing with long hair whether its tied back or loose. People who walk around wearing loose pants, a loose shirt that is not fitted, and tennis shoe with short hair is assumed to be a male. Children will not go by the physical attribution such as, …show more content…
In the image on page 411 in the book Rereading America it has a group of young boys all but one kid not wearing a shirt and wearing shorts that go below their knees, while playing with water guns aiming it at either someone or something. To society this is consider normal for boys to do on a hot summer day because playing with guns is something that society as accepted that males do, but if a group a girls were to do the same and dress the same way this would be considered be inappropriate because of one it’s a masculine thing to do and two because of a girl’s anatomy it’s not right for a girl to walk around without a shirt on. In Rereading America, the image that is on page 412, has three teenage girls holding up pieces of clothing up to the body looking in the mirror trying to see if they would like how they would look in